On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > > So you want to continue to allow the page allocator to return pages from > > anywhere, even when GFP_DMA is specified, just as though it was lowmem? > > Yes and no. I'm asking for the grace period for the drivers authors to be able > to fix their code. After a grace period of one or two majors this permission > should be removed and your original patch should be effective. > You don't need to wait for the code to be fixed, you just need to enable CONFIG_ZONE_DMA. This is a configuration issue. If that GFP_DMA can be removed later, that's great, but right now it requires it. Why can't you enable the config option? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>